BREW-LIBSSH2-CVE-2026-66034 (CVE-2026-66034)

Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-05 16:54 – Updated: 2026-08-05 16:54 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
libssh2 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via publickey subsystem
Details

libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit a13bb6c, contains a missing bounds check vulnerability that allows a malicious SSH server to trigger an arbitrary-length heap out-of-bounds read and a free of an uninitialized pointer via the publickey subsystem. In libssh2_publickey_list_fetch(), the version 1 response parser reads a server-controlled comment_len value and advances the parse pointer without verifying sufficient bytes remain in the buffer, causing the out-of-bounds read to leak heap pointers from adjacent allocations defeating ASLR, followed by heap allocator state corruption when the error cleanup path frees an uninitialized pointer from a non-zeroed realloc() region.

Severity
7.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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            "file": "Patches/libssh2/CVE-2026-66034.patch",
            "type": "backport"
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      },
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        }
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    }
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    "source": "generated"
  },
  "details": "libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit a13bb6c, contains a missing bounds check vulnerability that allows a malicious SSH server to trigger an arbitrary-length heap out-of-bounds read and a free of an uninitialized pointer via the publickey subsystem. In libssh2_publickey_list_fetch(), the version 1 response parser reads a server-controlled comment_len value and advances the parse pointer without verifying sufficient bytes remain in the buffer, causing the out-of-bounds read to leak heap pointers from adjacent allocations defeating ASLR, followed by heap allocator state corruption when the error cleanup path frees an uninitialized pointer from a non-zeroed realloc() region.",
  "id": "BREW-libssh2-CVE-2026-66034",
  "modified": "2026-08-05T16:54:10Z",
  "published": "2026-08-05T16:54:10Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/66xxx/CVE-2026-66034.json"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-66034"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libssh2-heap-out-of-bounds-read-via-publickey-subsystem"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/commit/a13bb6c773f0d55ad1628cede57e99803cd898d9"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/2202"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2"
    }
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  "schema_version": "1.7.3",
  "severity": [
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      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "libssh2 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via publickey subsystem",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-66034"
  ]
}



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